Why Braceros? (1959)

★★★ · Post 2008 Comment · JayKay49 · 2012-01-21

First comment since the big economic kaboom. And still, gringos, many unemployed wont do "stoop labor"...a definition that now extends into all sorts of things like landscape maintenance, roofing, checkers at Wal Mart, ashphalt paving....the list goes on. But today its that continued unemployment check, renewed ad infinitum and food stamps that keeps gringos from anything but "Too big to fire" union jobs or a coosh cubicle job shuffling paper. But never mind. One party has discovered a source of votes needed to keep em in office and they pursue those votes any way they can. So with nominal…

★★★ · Why Wetbacks? · Spuzz · 2005-09-20

Suspicious Government film that sternly explains why the U.S. Government hires Mexican farm workers. This is all done in a way that seems too official, so the warning flags immediately go up and makes me wonder how much of this is actually true. Whether ALL the farmers went through, it seems, channel after channel to get help for the manual work in the fields. Theres some hilarious interviews by startled government folk about this, and a Mexican counsel, who, in a stunning show of political incorrectness, proclaims that these workers Arent wetbacks! Those are illegal farm workers! Look…

★★ · Braceros: The workers of fate · dynayellow · 2003-09-04

Dry as toast film informing the public of the need for Mexican workers to work the worst jobs of the harvest season. Goes into the details of how they may be hired and how much they are paid (surprisingly, the same as Americans doing the same work). Interviews with people who work with the agencies that do the hirings. These non-actors look very uncomfortable, and one even lights up just before talking.